Yesterday, I watched the movie Die Hard 4.0. It is supposedly based on an info war on the US of A and how our incorrigible action-addicted hero John Wayne comes to the rescue and single handedly rescues the world, the complete financial networks, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, NYPD and his daughter. Sounds far-fetched? You ain't heard anything yet!
Supposedly, the movie is based on an article in the Wired magazine (I'll write an article on this later..). The article was written by the editor of the magazine with a view on how the growing dependence on technology could in itself be a honey-pot for the growing band of “bad guys”. The scenario is real and scary (I'll explain that later) but the movie sucks!
The most irritating part about the movie is where our hero does unnecessary herogiri when none is called for. For example, to kill the villain's girl friend, he gets into an SUV, drives through a building, ends up getting stuck in a lift shaft, gets himself almost killed and burns down half the building. It's almost like a competition where you are supposed to do the simplest thing in the most complicated manner.
Anyway, for the gist of the story (WARNING: Plot exposed!), it is about how a mercenary hacker turns against the system. A person who helped design the various fail back system for the biggest financial networks and defence networks decides that he now wants some money and the safest way to do it is by crippling America, triggering a backup process that copies over the entire financial records to one single database – then to copy this data, modify it so that he can scoop up a lot of $$. Nifty. Isn't it? But, he hadn't thought of one thing – our gun-toting, car-stealing, helicopter hunting hero – Detective John Wayne.
John who is dispatched to fetch a hacker for questioning gets embroiled in this technology-crap and ends up shooting a lot of people, destroying many buildings and killing an F-35 stealth bomber by jumping on, destroys a helicopter by crashing a car into it and various other stunts which our Rajni sir would have been proud of.
As if this was not enough, there is a sub-plot where the villain kidnaps John's daughter and intends to keep her hostage. John gets enraged and goes to get him - despite the fact that the traffic system is down due to the hacking unleashed by the bad guys. Strange though coz all others are shown stuck in traffic jams while our hero gets to drive in various cars, trailers, helicopters and F-35s – no jams, whatsoever. Wonder who managed the traffic for him.
Anyway, defying all logic and rationality, John, the angered father gets to the bad guy, kills him, gets the data back and saves the US of A and all ends well.
So, my suggestion is – if you have absolutely nothing else to do and want to burn up some $s, £s, Rs or whatever the currencty that you earn, please refrain from watching this horrible piece of movie. It is just not worth it.
References
Read all about the amazing figher plane in the movie at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II
For a more detailed movie details check out the Wiki site - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_4.0
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